Waakiye

Tag: love

  • Cold winter mornings and some words from my heart…

    Cold winter mornings and some words from my heart…

    Can you share a positive example of where you’ve felt loved?

    Hey…

    I hope all of you are doing well…!

    A cold Saturday morning that started at 7:34 AM for me, I found myself surrounded by my electronics A tablet, my phones and cables;

    I don’t remember when and how I fell asleep last night without putting my devices on charging and I am waking up with 12% on this device and 15% on the other one…!

    Let’s leave it at that…!(Wait no let me put them at charge first…)

    A Saturday it is and I hope you are in your beds have a quilt over you that is providing much needed warmth in this cold harsh winter morning…!

    There are a few people in my group that become addicted to Old Monk as soon as winter starts to hit them, some just bring one or two bottles of Morpheus(enough to last the whole winter) and take a sip of it in hot water as soon as they start to feel under the weather (Dawa Daaru…) 🥴

    And then there are people like me who just sit in their beds and fall asleep just like that and run on sheer dedication without the support of any external forces to guide them, and when we get sick(Rarely) it usually means running to doctors and pharmacies to get our medicine…!

    This in no way advocates that drinking is good for your health; there are things that won’t ever be good for your health—

    drinking and smoking being a few of them…!

    Coming back to the prompt…!

    A positive example of when I’ve felt loved…!

    How can I say this, but I’ve always been on the short end of the stick; I’ve seen people feel emotional and talk their heart out to me;

    Trust me with their secrets, found acceptance and answers that they weren’t ready for yet…!

    I’ve been the support system for many;

    Some of who are still in contact with me, some who aren’t they too have turned out to be vibrant people; living their life to the fullest and I’m really happy for them…!

    I’ve helped people come out of their slumps, talked them into giving another chance at love and found their partner;

    But;

    Never I’ve been on the long end of the stick,

    I’ve always been the one who lends an ear, hears their heart out, their secrets that will stay with me until the end of me;

    And that doesn’t mean that I haven’t had my share of love;

    I’ve had support of my best friends, my cousins and a loved one who I parted ways years ago; due to reasons….;

    Let’s not go there, it’s supposed to be a happy scenario that we have to paint here…!

    I’ve truly felt loved by someone who stays within this heart even though the distance between us has become too far now;

    Their embrace, their way of talking, the whole person they were they were loved;

    And when that person went from my life it was a wound that never filled…

    (Khair…)

    The loved ones can even be your family who look after you,

    A brother who works hard to make everything happen in the background,

    A mother who prepares meals for you, checks up on your well being when she sees you down,

    A sister who always awaits you, waiting to talk to you, is ready for your defense and even fights those who bring dirt to your name,

    A father who loves you but can’t express it…!

    Maybe you’re surrounded by love,

    but,

    you only want it if it’s coming from a single person,

    And that person isn’t that interested in you…?

    A dangerous situation to be in it would be…!

    Cheers 🥂

    Love Waakiye 🤍

  • Gratitude and De-cluttering ideas…!

    Gratitude and De-cluttering ideas…!

    Where can you reduce clutter in your life?

    Hey…

    I hope all of you are doing well…!

    A Friday is upon us, all of us are waiting for the work week to be over so we can enjoy the weekend that will give us some break from the cluttered life that we run each and every day…!

    I’d like to thank you,

    All of you from the bottom of my heart for making my last post one of the most liked post on WordPress;

    I know it’s a long way to go but this is the very first time that I had so many people like my post; the last update that I got was at 7:36 Am as I was thinking the concept of this post…!

    There are a few principles I work on,

    One of them being- “keeping my head down and working in silence” until the results show this world the type of person I’ve become following my routine of working hard while staying absolutely silent about all that’s going to happen in the near future…!

    That also means you have to make necessary changes when things don’t seem to work out or you aren’t feeling so much about a specific topic;

    But at last, A perspective of the writer remains, that gives the readers a chance to look into the thought process and makes the conclusion they arrived at a concrete one according to them…!

    And these words once written, become the absolute truth for us because they came from us with confidence and within a confined space called our mind…!

    Enough chatter let’s get back to the prompt of the day…

    Where can I reduce clutter in my life…?

    “What do you mean by clutter..?” This question comes into my mind…

    I mean I set my bed daily, clean my room once a week and try to keep it neat and tidy because once I return from work at 9-9:30 at night I basically have no will left to work or even move my body…!

    A room that looks like this is comes to mind when I picture clutter…!

    I usually have a routine which I follow to reduce clutter in my life;

    • I only buy things when the original one is obsolete and I try to remove it from my presence like if I buy a new phone I try to get rid of the old one by selling it off which chips away some price of the original one…!
    • I tell my family to reduce buying things from markets in plastic bags(readily available here in India, despite the ban); because they clutter up a space and aren’t used anywhere anymore…
    • We try to eat at least one meal together so we can talk about each other and discuss things that are on our minds decluttering our minds and providing each other some insight into each other’s life in some cases help each other out…!
    • I try to go to sleep without having anything playing or watching anything on my tab or phone because it breaks the good sleep cycle that we all need(it doesn’t necessarily happen each day but I’m trying to…)
    • I try to minimise the apps that I am on, which makes it easy for me to post and be aware of things that happen and places that I am supposed to upload daily…
    • I buy clothes only when needed and I spend money on good quality stuff only, I usually check the quality and the type of fabric that it is and if it will work in the long run…!
    • At last I need to control the habit of buying good shoes wherever I see one😓😂

    Usually when you remove the thing that you’re buying a replacement for; once you buy a new one— your life would be much less cluttered;

    Which doesn’t happen in the Indian household I know…😂

    I have a drawer full of wires which I keep on hand in hope that I will use it someday…!

    Someday indeed…

    Cheers 🥂

    Love Waakiye 🤍

  • A gracious steed and breaking the monotony in life…!

    A gracious steed and breaking the monotony in life…!

    What is your favorite animal?

    Hey…

    I hope all of you are doing well…!

    A new day has arrived for all of us, as I’m writing this on a Thursday morning at 7:55 am; I am in a bit of a thought slump myself…!

    I call it thought slump because the Lohri festival got my hopes up and the routine has returned to the same usual rhythm once the festive spirit waived off…!

    I know we as humans have to find happiness in little things that happen around us,

    But;

    Not all days are the same happy go jolly, and not each day the things go right or better than what we have planned;

    Some days I just go to work, keep my head down, work my tail off and return home around 9 at night…!

    Neither are all days are happy ones, nor they are bad;

    Some days just happen and when they happen one after another the fine line between them just blurs away;

    Making us feels like we are continuously living and doing what we do while trapped in a loop…!

    And that thought is scary…!

    When it feels like that, I usually break my routine-

    I take another route to or from my work, or make a stop at a bakery to get something from my family;

    Because without me who do they have…?

    And it brings me at ease when I remember that I went there yesterday or the day before and I make sure to check the day on the calendar when I’m trying to break my routine…!

    Enough chitter chatter about my sad life, let’s get back to the prompt…!

    What would be my favourite animal…?

    My favourite animal would be a horse

    Look at those ears curving inwards…!

    Their beauty which makes them fetch incredible prices and their walk which makes them even more graceful…!

    The use of their strength which pulled us from horse drawn carriages to the revolutionised world that we live in..!

    They are one of the few loyal companions that we can have we even have instances of our Sikh God Guru Gobind Singh Ji’s horse Neela or Nila(translation of the word Neela means the color blue due to the color of the coat of the horse)

    And there are many mentions of their lineage still alive to this day, but the blue color has faded into a grey white…!

    The speeds that they attain when they are raced, also their use in the games of polo today in Rajasthan…!

    A dream come true it would be to see a polo game in this life…!

    There are many instances of them being used in wars too, cavalry warfare was entirely about this, and how they maintained their horses in such conditions that they fought wars on horses and also used guns but they didn’t move one bit during the gunfight…!

    Even this day we have horses that are implemented in the Indian army, which give a lot of grace and respect to the strength that is associated with them…!

    Their value has grown with the types of cross breeding that gives rise to even more powerful horses…!

    I’ve seen the most expensive one go on sale was for 20 crore rupees(approx 2.2 Million USD) the breed were Marwari stallion and the name were Shahbaz(A beautiful looking black stallion) and David(A shiny brown 72” Marwari horse…)…

    On top of that they actually guess what sort of a person you are just by looking at you and they let you touch them only if they like you…!

    A gorgeous steed indeed…!

    Cheers 🥂

    Love Waakiye 🤍

  • Lohri celebrations and ways to communicate…!

    Lohri celebrations and ways to communicate…!

    In what ways do you communicate online?

    Hey…

    I hope all of you are doing well…!

    Yes, a Lohri update is due and I plan on doing that here itself because a lot of it was extended late until 12 am and I usually go to sleep by 11 or 11:30 pm at night…!

    It was a usual work day and I returned home around 9 pm after making a pit stop to buy milk and some other daily household supplies…!

    As soon as I reached home I assembled the bowl in which we put all of the stuff to offer it to the flame that we light earlier…

    These were the main Ingredients that we bought I know there are a lot of varieties and somewhere within the mix are hidden poha(flattened rice) and til(sesame seeds)…

    We bought all of these things above; if I were to explain rewdi it would be a crisp brittle candy made out of sugar or jaggery coated with sesame seeds…!

    After putting it in the bowl we started to prepare the actual bonfire…!

    We took a deep dish in which people mix cement, and turned it into a hack of a bonfire because the place around is surrounded by marble and a few years back it actually broke the bonfire as it got heated up real quick and cooled down as the temperature reached 5 degrees celsius the next morning…

    The base of it is made using a cloth in which was wrapped camphor and we used matches to light it and thankfully the wood that we had were dry as a bone they lit up real quick…!

    A few additional participants this Lohri…!

    Our dog a beagle he was an active participant chewing on the peanuts and popcorn, he really liked rewdi and went to each one is us to have one…!

    A pic when the initial wood caught on fire…!

    And when the wood caught on fire we took seven rounds around it while we put sesame seeds in it;

    We took a handful of it and walked around the fire while putting it in the fire bit by bit until the rounds completed…!

    And as soon as the seven rounds were over we took both handful of the rewdi, popcorn and peanuts and ate some of it and put the rest gradually in the fire…!

    After that we sat around the fire by putting chairs and took the warmth all within us as we snacked on the tri-mix until we were joined by our neighbour and they sat with us and we talked for hours upon hours about life and happening…!

    Yes the litter around is of the tri mix and the flames were roaring more than usual…!
    One of our dogs a beagle who enjoyed the warmth and snacks from the hands that fed him…!
    Another one of our dogs, a street dog that we rescued and took in; looking up at us with those eyes in a hope that they will grant her with some peanuts…!
    I don’t think you can see it but we did put in a few potatoes wrapped in foil; Do let me know if you can find all five of them…!

    Coming back to the prompt

    Which I almost forgot about…!

    In what ways do I communicate online…?

    Well, communication should happen that’s what matters to me we can talk over text, maybe direct message, WhatsApp, telegram, Instagram chat and so much more more…!

    Any way that feels comfortable to the other person is suitable for me;

    I used to chat on discord with people who formed a group after an app that I was regular on shut down…!

    I prefer to discuss all of it on call because of my business nature, but there are some things that happen over text and I respect the other person’s boundaries too…!

    (Because I’ve been on both the sides…!)

    A meaningful conversation happens any-way when we begin to talk;

    The only problem is that I cannot have a conversation to kill time or pass it just because I’m bored or they’re bored…!

    Maybe that is something that I’d have to look for improving in myself,

    But other than that,

    I’m almost all times open to converse even on topics that spark fear…!

    (**An edit before uploading aren’t we having a conversation here too…?)

    What was left after the night…!

    Cheers 🥂

    Love Waakiye 🤍

  • Snacks and chatter about life happening…!

    Snacks and chatter about life happening…!

    What snack would you eat right now?

    Hey…

    I hope all of you are doing well…!

    Another week is upon us and all of us are hitting the work hard, if you’re reading this while sitting in the cubicle, you have to know your life that exists is outside this box;

    And the work that you are doing maybe it’s moving mails here and there; it’s crucial to someone because it gives you a paycheque weekly or monthly…!

    I know you must be dead tired returning to work but someone has to do what you do right;

    And if not you then who…?

    And,

    Yes we were born with a duty that we are supposed to work to earn our feed and also for those who are dependent on us;

    And I’d like to ask you,

    What is your source of inspiration to keep on working…?

    Maybe it’s to keep on affording things that you already own, maybe you’re saving for a child that is about to bless your life, maybe it’s a push towards parenthood,

    Or maybe it’s a dog or a cat that gives you company and you work for them and you have someone to return home to…!

    A big talk of dependency that happened in the above paragraph and let us not steer away from from the prompt of the day that is-

    A snack that I would eat right now…?

    Now isn’t that convenient…!

    It’s 9:30 in the morning as I’m writing this, and I’m planning to have some right now…!

    And that was postponed because I got a haircut and now I’m sitting at home and it’s 10:10 am…!

    Well I am about to have my morning snack I.e. coffee and one of the brownies that I brought last night from a friend’s cafe…!

    Which I paid in full(even if the business owner is my friend) , remember he’s your friend but business is business, if he voluntarily gives you some discount you don’t deny it, but ask them if giving a discount works for them, only if you’re going to be a repeated customer there…

    Always pay your friend in full, and if possible buy something extra because it eventually goes to helping your friend…!

    Yup this morning’s coffee and brownie that I’m having as I’m going to write and edit all of this…!

    Well, if you’d ask me this during afternoon it would be a sub from a cafe that’s near my workplace during a workday…!

    And at night the same would transform into something that I’d for sure have in my drawer that would be some pre packed roasted nuts maybe cashew or almonds or a tong gardens party snack mixture…!

    There is always some time that can be made for snacks,

    Can’t it…?

    Also I went to watch a theatrical performance about a show called Lihaaf, it’s review and a few pictures are attached in the post that will have its link right below 👇

    Theatrical representation of Lihaaf….
    Do give it a read if you have some time on your hand…!

    Cheers 🥂

    Love Waakiye 🤍

  • A stranger guiding your life…!

    A stranger guiding your life…!

    Come up with a crazy business idea.

    Hey…!

    It’s a Sunday,

    Let that realisation set in…!

    Yup, the fun is over and it’s the day that you procrastinate that having just the weekend is not enough , we need at-least three days as a weekend,

    No, I don’t mean having 4 working days,

    I mean there should be 8 days in a week, I know it’s a crazy idea but, imagine you logged of at work and went to a pub or planned to hang out with your friends, meeting them over drinks,

    And if you’re sober A better option would be going with them to explore a new restaurant or visiting an art gallery with them…

    You do that on a Friday evening and do all the chores on a Saturday; if you’re not hammered enough (then you can do that on a Sunday…)

    And now, instead of crying that you weren’t able to do anything; you have a whole another day, to do what you actually wanted to do…!

    As I’m typing this, it seems like an outrageous idea for daily workers and those working in hospitality or behind counters because an additional day that they have to work would for sure break their backs…!

    So, for now this seems like an impossible idea but not for long…!

    Coming back to the prompt

    A crazy business idea here

    You know how people are dependent on technology, like you’re reading this on a device, maybe a pc, laptop, tablet or even your phone…!

    And you’re hooked on it for hours upon hours, and no one can get you off it, maybe your parents have already dozed off but you aren’t able to so you get up, leaving your phone and stare at the night sky,

    And there aren’t any stars even the moon like you used to see when you were a little kid, maybe the level of pollution is too high and you don’t have anyone to talk about how you’re feeling…!

    So you call us on our number where a person who will discreetly come within a few minutes, and take you to out for tea or coffee no matter what the time is and they will drive you too…!

    Have tea with you and hear all of your problems and try to find optimum solutions;

    It would not be a subscription based because not all the time you need this sort of support, but that system would be available for long term users…!

    I hope I have cleared most of the people who were here to copy the idea or used ChatGPT to generate their ideas…!

    Additional filter

    It would be complex and crazy at the same time, a person or a guide would take you back in time to your childhood or some time before(this is a critical piece of information…)

    And you’d see the life of your parents before you were born, and how they lived their lives,

    And for an extra charge they’d let you explore your hereditary path, letting you trace your origin back to maybe a 3 or 4 generations(nothing more than that…)

    Anything more than that and it becomes an anomaly that all of the scientists who are looking for a single being that started all of our origin…

    And they are there to give you an experience that you could never ever achieve because after a lot of consideration this idea comes to you that you need to be aware of your lineage…!

    I know it’s a crazy idea for now, but we are not far from the time by that ai explodes exponentially and lets us form technology that can help us achieve this dream in our near future…!

    Well that’s it for a Sunday morning because it’s 7:30 in the morning for me and I started to think about writing this at 6 in the morning…!

    Cheers 🥂

    Love Waakiye 🤍

  • Different perspectives and goals that affect us…!

    Different perspectives and goals that affect us…!

    What could you do differently?

    Hey…

    I hope all of you are doing well…!

    First thing it’s scary that it’s only Wednesday today when this could have already been a Thursday for me,

    And we are already first week into the new year as we speak…!

    Another lie that I cannot seem to believe at all…!

    Well I’ve felt that time flies past quickly these days; but I’ve never ever felt such haste…

    Coming to the prompt because thinking that makes me go crazy…!

    What could I do differently…?

    Another one of those broad questions of you ask me,

    I mean what i could to differently in life, at work, at relationships or what; the horizon is so broad…!

    Well for beginning,

    I want to be up early and stay awake for the some time and complete work that I’ve taken upon myself (writing short stories and some skits…)

    Second would be to have enough energy left to join a gym after work because that is something I want to involve myself in…

    Third would be to be more active and great at conversation and keeping up either my friendships and relationships that I have with people (both in and outside of work…)

    The last would be to be a better person than who I am right now, because there is suffering that I see around me, but I’m not that loaded that I can help everyone that I see;

    So I just want to be in a better place so that I can help those around me, well if not strangers I’d be happy to help those who are a part of my family by helping them get up on their feet and give them a much needed boost that will pull them out of their slow and stagnant life…(only if they need my help…)

    There are many things that can be done differently, much of it depends on the perspective of self and those who is affected by the change isn’t it…?

    Well to a better future shall we tread…!

    Cheers 🥂

    Love Waakiye 🤍

  • A billboard promoting mental health…!

    A billboard promoting mental health…!

    If you had a freeway billboard, what would it say?

    Hey…!

    I hope all of you are doing well …!

    There’s something that I want to try,

    I don’t know what time zone all of you are in but, my last post which I made by sheer accident late at night got many likes and views,

    So I’m trying something that makes absolutely no sense right now, but nothing hurts if it gives the content that I write a boost…!

    Well,

    When it will be uploaded,

    Most of my day would be already over,

    And I’d be home probably trying to have dinner or already in my bed that I cleaned this morning trying to sleep…!

    Coming back to the prompt,

    A freeway billboard(first time I’m hearing this because there are no such things here in India…)

    But I guess it would be either promoting my business or this writing work that I do;

    I know there are many billboards that also play videos;

    Maybe I could make an advert to promote safe driving by making an ad that tells to not drink and drive;

    Or,

    Another one would be to be on a proper sleep before driving because that causes a lot of accidents ;

    It wouldn’t truly be mine without having something in writing that separates my content from others;

    So it would be catchy;

    Like-

    One of my Instagram posts

    Like this one (⬇️)

    And this would be in an auto shuffle if it’s a working billboard or it would be collapsed into a single one when it is needed…!

    I know it wouldn’t be an immediate hit,

    But it would linger enough to make people search it,

    Maybe click on the link and watch the whole post…!

    That’s exactly how I feel…!

    With that being said it would be a great thing to see and look at,

    And I’d click my photo standing under it too,

    And it’s going to make people around me proud too…!

    A whole billboard belonging to me,

    I’d call it a dream come true…!

    Until next time…!

    Cheers 🥂

    Love Waakiye 🤍

  • An unusual coffee date…!

    An unusual coffee date…!

    Extremely tiresome it was as I was returning home,

    Gruelling hours put in a job that made my life miserable,

    And I hate myself for being stuck in a rut,

    That made me question the choices that left me in such a place;

    Home was still a few hours away,

    As I stood at that light waiting for it to turn green,

    So that I could drive to an empty home,

    Eat the food and maybe try to sleep in early,

    But I knew I was kidding myself;

    As I looked around,

    I found a rustic cafe,

    And from the see-through partially tinted windows I saw,

    I saw a set of eyes,

    Those eyes scanned the world running away from it;

    As I stared into those,

    They looked like pools of honey in the warm light of the cafe,

    After a while,

    Our eyes matched and she stared back at her cup,

    After looking at the empty seat she stared back outside;

    A stranger’s eyes were better than staring at an empty seat they thought,

    So, I made a U-turn,

    Parked my car and went into the cafe,

    As our eyes met,

    She looked at the chair in front of her and those eyes told me to take a seat;

    As I sat,

    And placed an order of flat white while she sipped on her coffee,

    It was supposed to be a date but he ditched me,

    Something came up,

    “Of course it does…”

    But I’m grateful for that;

    A few things came to our office too,

    That’s the sole reason I stayed late and left at such an odd hour,

    As she took another sip,

    The waiter brought me my flat white;

    Before I could,

    She told me to wait a moment,

    Because they serve it extremely hot,

    On sipping I burnt my lip and tongue,

    But I played it off;

    As she stared at me,

    Thinking it didn’t hurt,

    But deep down she knew it did,

    And enquired about it,

    I tried to refuse but my face told her the truth;

    In that moment of laughter and cheerfulness,

    She told me,

    “It feels good that she was ditched now..”

    As I let out a little laughter,

    And told her,

    “Maybe things do happen for good…”

    Like me returning from my 9-to-5 job at 8:30 at night;

    “You still have it well,

    I used to work where they forced us to work overnight” she told me

    There we were,

    Trauma dumping,

    laughing at each other’s miseries,

    Letting out a few laughs,

    And then sipping on our coffees;

    As it was our last sip,

    Out of nowhere I wanted to do a toast,

    As I raised my cup,

    And held our fate hostage;

    “Cheers on being ditched, Yet finding someone to have a coffee with so late at night…!”

    A laughter then another,

    As she shed a few tears thinking about her fate,

    And thanked me for making her night one to remember…

    As we walked outside,

    A ride waited for her that was supposed to take her home,

    She shared her number and told me to call her when I reached home,

    And after G0d knows how many years,

    I waited,

    And waited to reach home…!

    -Fin-

    A short story I witnessed and expanded on today as I sat at the coffee table…!

  • In a Loud World, Find Someone Who Listens

    In a Loud World, Find Someone Who Listens

    What is the greatest gift someone could give you?

    Hey…

    I hope all of you are doing well…!

    It’s another Sunday and I hope you went to bed sooner than you expected;

    You won’t believe the response that I got from people they believed that it would be better to just stay in, spend some time with their family or stay indoors maybe with a friend after grabbing a bottle, sharing it and crashing at their place or letting them crash at your place;

    This was more of a response I got;

    Some were like my parents aren’t home so I will spend the night with my boyfriend/girlfriend and there were a few who decided to go out to drink or have food…!

    A wild change has been brought by the year 2026 into the lives of people that live around us;

    Maybe a change was indeed needed, to be self introspective and knowing who is right and who to keep alongside you and people are doing that this year;

    Filtering and cutting their circle to a few good people instead of a bunch of people who show up just because they get a free treat out of you…!

    Coming back to the prompt;

    What would be the greatest gift someone could ever give me…?

    For me it would be their Trust and Genuine presence;

    Imagine knowing someone and you fully trust them with your secrets, your life and anything that goes on in it;

    And when something goes wrong they show up to put you in your arms and gently bring you from a scary place back into this world;

    I really have to thank the almighty for putting someone like that in my life;

    They have been a sort of pillar in my life that I can take support of when nothing else is going right and they also guide me when nothing is going right in my life;

    One of the most important things;

    They become a place where I can freely say out things without being judged and they let me know when I’m in the right headspace or not;

    And they always listen to me keenly whenever or whatever I have to speak about;

    The last part is extremely important;

    And there aren’t many who just listen to you, because this is a fast paced world and everyone has their priorities,

    But can you imagine having someone like that…!

    I’m extremely blessed…!

    Also this goes both ways,

    If you want to be with a person who has all of this qualities, you will have to be one such person beforehand;

    By being someone like that before you will find yourself in a place where you will help people out too by hearing them and providing them with comfort and then you will find yourself in a place where you are surrounded by many such people who are like that…!

    With that being said,

    Their trust and genuine presence in your life would be the optimum answer for this prompt…!

    Take it slowly it’s a Sunday morning, I know you are going to wake up late and then contemplate your day maybe your life later;

    But,

    Find someone to talk to, a genuine connection;

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    Cheers 🥂

    Love Waakiye